“It brought back 1,000 memories from people from fourth grade and fifth grade, when you first started playing basketball and the first teams you are on,” Popovich said. “It was fun to see all those people.”

While there, he had a chance to reunite with his old friend, Chuck Hughes. They were members of a biddy basketball squad that finished third in a world tournament in 1960 — back when Popovich and Hughes were 11 years old